Oasis
Don't Believe The Truth
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
Record label: Sony
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Album Review: Don't Believe The Truth by Oasis
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
All of which makes the resulting album, Don't Believe the Truth, a real shock. It's confident, muscular, uncluttered, tight, and tuneful in a way Oasis haven't been since Morning Glory. It doesn't feel labored nor does it sound as if they're deliberately trying to recreate past glories. Instead, it sounds like they've remembered what they love about rock & roll and why they make music.
Based on rating 3/5
Every time a new Oasis record hoves into view, band, fans and sympathetic critics collude in the myth that all they need do is rediscover their Britpop Eden and the nation will once more sing along with one voice. It's this disastrous thinking that has reduced the band's concerts to bathetic exercises in 1990s nostalgia. Despite such bad omens as the idiotic title and Liam's usual pugilistic pre-release blather, Don't Believe the Truth finally breaks the pattern.
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